Allison Holmes 1 Anth 410 Scoggin 2/15/13

The ‘Library’ of Allison Holmes

I never really thought of myself as a person who enjoys reading. Ever since I was

a little girl, I have always had a hard time with it; I am a very slow reader. It would and

still takes twice as long for me to read something than someone else. But maybe it is just

because I have grown up or maybe because I have actually found an interest in something

that I actually enjoy reading, a new light has been shed on books and articles.

Anthropology has done this for me; it took me many a major to find something I was

actually interested in, least at 4 majors before anthropology was x marks the spot. I knew

that I never wanted to be one of those people that hated there job, it was very important to

me to find something I really loved. I knew right after I took my first anthropology class

that this was something new and exciting that I wanted to continue doing threw out my

life. It was love at first class I guess you could say.

The works that I have complied are of particular interest to me in that I actually

enjoyed and wanted to read them. I feel that assigned readings a class can be so boring

and tedious that they put me to sleep. Not with anthropology, I think even when I was a

little girl I was always fascinated by the way other people lived. My mother said that

when I was a little girl, we go to other peoples’ houses that I would wonder off and she

would find me going through someone’s draws. I have always kind of been that way,

wondering why a painting on someone’s wall is important to them or what a special

utensil is use for that I have never seen before.

A lot of my sources are from past papers and interests within other anthropology

classes. Many sources are things that I would like to continue pursuing and base some of

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my own research off of one day. The sites that refer to the caves of Nevada are a new

interest of mine, I hope to continue my research on this subject matter and hopefully find

some work in Nevada. Nevada is one of those places that has always kind of blew my

mind, it is hard to believe that a place so desolate could be thriving with life and culture.

Egyptology has a new place in my heart after taking an Egyptology class, I would love to

go to Egypt and explore everything it has to offer. Karnak is of particular interest to me; I

would love to study the architecture there and importance of it to the ancient Egyptians.

Most of my other sources are from essays that I have enjoyed writing and things that I

just plain enjoy reading and learning about. For instance my site on the blog about

kangaroo meat and indigenous people was something that I really took pleasure in

reading and could easily be a next paper topic. These sources help to make up what

learning roadways I have taken of over the years to shape who I am as student and

anthropologist.

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Annotated Bibliography

Andrainarivo, C. "Eulemur Flavifrons." The IUCN Red List of Endangered Species.

International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, 2011.

Web. 17 Feb. 2012.

After taking a Primatology class I have had interest in lemurs. Blue-eye black lemurs are

of particular interest to me and I would love to go study them someday in Madagascar.

Arnold, D. , Gardiner, S. , Strudwick, H. , & Strudwick, N. (2003). The Encyclopedia of

Ancient Egyptian Architecture. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.

This encyclopedia offers great information on Karnak. It talks about the main

construction periods: middle kingdom, early 18th

dynasty, amenhotep III, post-amarna,

and third intermediate and late periods.

Badawy, A. (1966). Architecture in Ancient Egypt and the Near East. n.p.:

This book consists of information about the cult temples that were within Karnak.

This book explains a lot of how certain temples for certain things were built in certain

ways. Temples of gods are usually built with materials of eternity, soft stone or hard

stone, no mud brick.

Buckley, Simon. "Presentation in the Arctic Centre: Kangaroo Burgers and Supporting

Indigenous People." Web log post. Arctic Anthropology. Wordpress.com, 11 Feb.

2013. Web. 15 Feb. 2013.

This blog caught my attention; I have been learning Ancient North America and focusing

mainly on arctic and sub-arctic areas. This blog is about arctic anthropology and

indigenous people. The most recent update to the blog is about how kangaroo is

supporting the likes of indigenous people in Australia, and how they would like to

develop fair trade kangaroo products.

Christie, Jessica Joyce, ed. Maya Palaces and Elite Residences: An

Interdisciplinary Approach. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003.

While taking an ancient Maya art class I again became interested in the architecture of

ancient peoples. I like to see how different culture made different structures and what

they were used for and who could use them. Maya Palaces and Elite Residences has

much information about who live in what structures. Where the elite of certain sites

resided and what architecture was used for ceremonies scarifies, etc.

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Clarkin, Patrick F. "A Darwin Day Dose of Inspiration." Web log post. Patrick F Clarkin

PhD. N.p., 12 Feb. 2013. Web. 15 Feb. 2013.

This blog is a biological anthropology blog, the newest entry is about Charles Darwin day

and honoring a man who helped us to understand evolution and natural selection. It has a

great little video clip at the end of Daivd Attenborough singing it’s a wonderful world. I

have become interested in forensics and biological just in the recent year. I like it is

amazing that you can yield so much information just from bones or observing the way

and primate lives.

Dewar, R., Richard, A. (2012). Madagascar: A History of Arrivals, What Happened, and

Will Happen Nest. Annual Review of Anthropology, 41, 495-517.

This article is about the how global climate change will affect the environment of the

unique island of Madagascar. There are three major parts to this article: the continuing

impact of recent, cataclysmic events on modern communities of people, plants, and

animals; Madagascar’s long and dynamic environmental history; and the complicated

history of how people settled and interacted with the island’s landscape. This article is of

interest to me because I’m quite interested in the lemurs on the Island. How will the

climate changes and human impact change their environment? How will they adapt to

these changes, if they do at all?

Dodson, A. (2002). The problem of amenirdis ii and the heirs to the office of god's wife

of amun during the twenty-sixth dynasty. The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology,

88, 179-186.

This article is about the god’s wife of amun, a figure in ancient Egypt that was a women

of very high status. Almost like a women priest, shoe would perform rituals and religious

ceremonies. I thought this was significant in that women had political freedom in ancient

Egypt. One day I would love to go to Egypt and find more out on the roles that women

played in ancient Egypt.

Dusselier, J. (2006). Embodied identity? the life and art of estelle ishigo. Feminist

Studies, 32(3), 534-546.

Art is a big part of my life, I consider myself an artist in many forms. Japanese interment

camps have always spark my interest, this article shows how people express themselves

through art when put in stressful situations and new cultures and communities can form.

This describes the internment of Estelle Ishigo, a white woman who was interned along

with Japanese American husband. The paintings and other forms of ark work explain the

conditions of the internees. Most of her art focuses on life in the camps for women and

children.

GOODYEAR, D. (2006). What happened at alder creek?; american chronicles. The New

Yorker, 82(10), 140.

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This article is about the excavation of the Donner Party site at Alder Creek. The Donner

Party was a group of immigrants who became stuck in the Sierra Nevada during the

winter of 1846. The article is focused on the excavation of the site to see if they could

find any evidence of cannibalism. I have always been interested by the Donner Party, I

grew up in the area where they were trapped, and maybe one day will be able to do some

research of my own at the site.

Hardesty, D. , & Brodhead, M. (1997). The Archaeology of the Donner Party.

Reno: University of Nevada Press.

This book was very helpful to one of my research projects. It gave a clear history of the

Donner Party and what happened to them when they became trapped in the snow

mountain. Then is goes into all the archaeological evidence to back it up.

Heizer, R. , Krieger, A. (1956). The Archaeology of Humboldt Cave, Churchill

County, Nevada. Berkeley: University of California Press.

This book is something that I just started getting interested in; I’m using it as a resource

for one of my new research projects for one of my classes. It is about the archaeology at

Humboldt Cave, which was first excavated in 1936 by Robert Heizer. Many artifacts

were found, including fiber and skin garments, due to the cave’s environment they

preserved quite well. Heizer goes into detail analyzing the site and comes to a conclusion

that it was a temporary shelter. This book will help to understand who was at Humboldt

cave site, what their culture was like and how it correlates to the rest of the sites in

Nevada. I found this book through interlibrary loan through the library website.

Kidder, T. (2003). Mountains Beyond Mountains. New York: Random House.

This book is probably the reason why I decided to become an anthropologist. I read it one

of my very first anthropology classes and just fell in love with the incredible story. I like

how Paul Farmer was not just a doctor but also and anthropologist. He not only wanted to

help people but he wanted to do it their way and abide by their culture. He put much

consideration into helping someone with TB put also didn’t just shove western medicine

practices down their throat.

Kennedy, K. (1985). Human identification: Case studies in forensic anthropology . ted a.

rathbun, jane e. buikstra. American Anthropologist, 87(1), 213-214.

I thought this was a very interesting article, forty-six anthropology have contributed there

case studies to this arctile. I think this is an awesome way to get to know what kind of

case are out there and see how different anthropologist deal with it differently.

Kuramitsu, K. (1995). Internment and identity in japanese american art. American

Quarterly, 47(4), 619-658

It shows how Japanese Americans turned to art as a form of self-identity during and after

the internment during World War II. There are to parts of this article; the first explaining

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the exhibit 'The View from Within: Japanese American Art from the Internment Camps

1942-1945.' This displays unknown works of the internees and how their younger kin is

continuing to produce art to better understand and come to terms with the internment.

The second half of the article examines the Exhibit 'Relocations and Revisions: The

Japanese American Internment Reconsidered.'

Smith, B. (1992). Bodie, california. Off - Road, 26(4), 80.

This article is about the ghost town of Bodie. It is registered as both a California state

historical park and national historic site. Ghost towns have always been of interest to me,

the California gold rush in particular.

Treganza, A. (1959). Salvage Archaeology in the Trinity Reservoir Area, Northern

California--field Season 1958. Berkeley: University of California Archaeological Survey,

Dept. of Anthropology, University of California.

Salvage archaeology has been an interest of mine. What is considered salvage

archaeology? This book goes on to explain salvage archaeology in the trinity reservoir

area. This is a perfect example a reservoir possibly damaging archaeology evidence.

Trevathan, W. (2007). Evolutionary medicine. Annual Review of Anthropology, 36, 139-

154.

Evolutionary medicine is something that I just started to scratch the surface of. This

article goes into detail about what evolutionary medicine is and three main topics within

it: nutrition, reproductive health, and chronic disease.

Wayman, E. (2006). Forensic anthropology. Current Anthropology, 47(1), 5.

This article is about forensic anthropologist Lori Baker and her work with illegal

Mexican immigrants who tired to cross the U.S. Mexican border and ended up perishing

in the process. She is working to identify these bodies through DNA analysis. I think that

forensic anthropology is just awesome, being able to indentify some from just the wear

and tear and features of their bones. I think forensic anthropology might be a field I want

to persue.

Wilkinson, R. (2000). The Complete Temples of Ancient Egypt. New York: Thames &

Hudson.

I’m quite interested in architecture of ancient Egypt, particularly that of Karnak. Karnak

is a place of century after century of building projects. These building projects were not

just offerings to the gods but also a place of propaganda. This book has an awesome

section on Karnak and Luxor. It shows a map of the complex and all temples within it. It

even talks about the Standing Obelisk of Hatsheput at Karnak.